Cardona Valles, Mariona (Date of defense: 2020-12-16)
This work argues that in mineral exploitation we encounter recurring forms of violence, referred to as “mineral violence”. This mineral violence is perpetrated by industries, armed groups, criminal ...
Montes Franceschini, Macarena (Date of defense: 2022-10-05)
The thesis defends the plausibility of nonhuman animal personhood from a legal and moral perspective. It offers an ecumenical defense as it argues that animals can be considered persons from very ...
Grgić, Mladen (Date of defense: 2022-09-16)
La tesis doctoral analiza los principales proyectos de infraestructura desarrollados por la República Popular China en la región de los Balcanes. En particular, la tesis pone el foco en los aspectos ...
Spotorno, Riccardo Maria (Date of defense: 2020-10-06)
This thesis is a comprehensive study and defence of parental licensing, i.e. the proposal of making the right to parent one’s biological conditional to the successful completion of a series of checks ...
Galceran-Vercher, Marta (Date of defense: 2022-12-01)
The doctoral thesis City Networks in Global Governance: Practices, Discourses and Roles analyses the implications of the revamping international activism of cities for global governance. The central ...
Preller Bórquez, Sebastián (Date of defense: 2020-07-17)
This work examines the place that sustainable development has in the field of international policy and law. The thesis argues that a narrative of balance between different economic, social and environmental ...
Astier Murillo, Cristina (Date of defense: 2022-03-16)
International trade generates inequalities pervasively impacting citizens and the ability of domestic and international institutions to provide the conditions to promote equal treatment among their ...
Magaña Fernández, Pablo (Date of defense: 2022-11-17)
This thesis provides a systematic analysis and a defense of the claim that at least some nonhuman animals (i.e. mammals) ought to be granted political standing, understood here as a (pro tanto) duty of ...
Silva, Pedro Luis Barbosa da (Date of defense: 2021-04-13)
This dissertation addresses several normative questions about tax competition between the European Union Member States. My answers to these questions are part of a wider way of thinking about justice ...
Inostroza, Maria Victoria (Date of defense: 2021-09-27)
The focus of this dissertation is the globalized world of today. As a complex phenomenon, globalization has many and varied effects on our lives. Some of them are paradigmatically negative such as the ...